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Custom Fields

Custom fields allow metadata based tagging for various entities to support downstream filtering and analysis requirements. You can create custom fields of different types and assign to one or more entities (scenario, test case, action, context, data type).

During the initial onboarding of a new Project in accelQ, it is important to setup these custom fields to reflect your application taxonomy and business requirements from test execution and reporting view point.

You create custom fields from the Project Administration section. Provide a name, description and help text. Various types of fields are supported:

Field Type

Examples

Text

Free form text value

Text area

Multi line text field for comments, notes etc.

List

Such as Priority (high, low, medium), Line of Business (flight, hotel, car) etc.

Multi Select

App modules (login, shopping, checkout etc.)

User List

Reviewed By

Date

Due date for completion

Boolean

Is Approved

A custom field can be assigned to one or more entities in the system which include Scenario, Action, Context, Data Type and Test Case.